CSA - Our Confederate Dead Monument - Walhalla, SC
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member hummerstation
N 34° 46.017 W 083° 04.540
17S E 310041 N 3849161
This monument is located in the median of West Main Street in Walhalla.
Waymark Code: WM8RCT
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
Views: 8

An obelisk-like memorial to the Confederate dead of Western Pickens District (Oconee County) located in the median of West Main Street, Walhalla, SC. The memorial consists of a statue of a soldier atop a square column. The column has inscriptions on all four sides.

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE
MEMORY OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
BY THE WOMEN OF OCONEE COUNTY

These gallant soldiers gave their lives for the
principal of States Rights, for the protection
of their homes, and in defense of their women
and children. We who knew them testify that
their courage was without a precedent, their
fortitude without a parallel, their virtues of the
highest and that they knew no law of lie but
loyalty, truth and civic virtue and to these
principals they consecrated their lives and
fortunes

On the other three sides

ON FAMES ETERNAL CAMPING GROUND
THEIR SILENT TENTS ARE SPREAD
WHILE GLORY GUARDS THE SOLEMN ROUND
THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD

CONFEDERATE SERVICE
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN
FEDERAL SERVICE
TWO MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN

“THE LAND THE STRUGGLED TO SAVE FOR US
WILL NOT FORGET
ITS WARRIORS YET
WHO SLEEP IN SO MANY A GRAVE FOR US”
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Women of Oconee County

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate

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Date Installed or Dedicated: Not listed

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